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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 30:13.
Exodus 30:11-16
Excerpted from: One Nation Under God (Part 2)The people of Jerusalem made a formal commitment to pay the Temple tax. We have two issues with this. The first is technical. In the Pentateuch, according to Exodus 30:11-16, the Temple tax had been fixed at one half a shekel. Here in Nehemiah 10:32, it is one third of a shekel. It is a minor point, but an interesting question. Since not even the priests were free to alter God’s law, some explanation is in order. Usually this is explained by assuming that the Jerusalem and Babylonian shekels had different values. This is not unlikely. Another explanation is by noting that in Exodus the tax was to be paid only when a census was taken, while in Nehemiah it was to be paid annually. Those are two possible reasons.
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